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Wages and Prices Are Rising – Is the Phillips Curve Back?

Dec 17, 2021 Mike Klain

In a recent poll, two-thirds of respondents agreed with the statement “inflation is a very big concern for me.” These concerns are not without merit: the Consumer Price Index, which tracks the weighted-average prices of consumer goods and services, showed a 6.2% annual increase in October, the largest rate of increase in thirty years. The […]

February 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

The Biden administration announced Monday morning that the Treasury Department will make adjustments to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in order to steer additional funds toward smaller businesses. Principal among the changes are a two-week ban on participation by companies with more than 20 employees, the revocation of rules excluding borrowers with past felony convictions […]

January 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

President Biden issued an Executive Order Thursday to make it easier for Americans, and particularly those who rely on work-provided benefits, to access health insurance during the pandemic. The order will reopen the federal Obamacare marketplace and create a special enrollment period from Feb. 15 to May 15, offering a healthcare option to Americans who’ve […]

August 7, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the monthly jobs report this morning, showing a nonfarm payroll increase of 1.8 million jobs, as well as a slight decrease in the unemployment rate to 10.2% for the month of July. The industry with the largest employment gains was leisure and hospitality, adding 592,000 jobs. Yet, the report […]

June 12, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

According to the Department of Labor (DOL), 1.5 million people filed for unemployment last week, bringing the total number of claimants since mid-March to over 44 million. While last week’s total marked a pandemic low, the New York Times notes that the figure only tells part of the story. First, the number does not account for those who did […]

May 14, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Department of Labor announced this morning that 2.9 million more Americans filed for unemployment in the past week, raising the nation’s record-shattering unemployment rate beyond 14.7%. Among the 36.5 million people now unemployed are some 600,000 clean energy workers, whose employment has been especially affected due to comparative economic fragility of many clean-energy start-ups […]

October 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in three cases that turn on whether Title VII’s protections against sex discrimination extend to anti-LGBTQ discrimination. In anticipation of the argument, NBC News published the stories of transgender employees who have faced job discrimination. According to the National Center for Transgender Equality’s 2015 U.S. Transgender […]

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